EP2389316B1 - Verfahren zur herstellung von behältern für flüssige produkte wie medizinische, pharmazeuische, kosmetische oder ähnliche produkte und damit herstellbarer behälter - Google Patents

Verfahren zur herstellung von behältern für flüssige produkte wie medizinische, pharmazeuische, kosmetische oder ähnliche produkte und damit herstellbarer behälter Download PDF

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EP2389316B1
EP2389316B1 EP10701397.1A EP10701397A EP2389316B1 EP 2389316 B1 EP2389316 B1 EP 2389316B1 EP 10701397 A EP10701397 A EP 10701397A EP 2389316 B1 EP2389316 B1 EP 2389316B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B3/00—Packaging plastic material, semiliquids, liquids or mixed solids and liquids, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B3/02—Machines characterised by the incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles
    • B65B3/022—Making containers by moulding of a thermoplastic material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D1/00—Containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material, by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/09—Ampoules
    • B65D1/095—Ampoules made of flexible material
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J1/00—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes
    • A61J1/05—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for collecting, storing or administering blood, plasma or medical fluids ; Infusion or perfusion containers
    • A61J1/06—Ampoules or carpules
    • A61J1/067—Flexible ampoules, the contents of which are expelled by squeezing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/02—Combined blow-moulding and manufacture of the preform or the parison
    • B29C49/04—Extrusion blow-moulding
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4273—Auxiliary operations after the blow-moulding operation not otherwise provided for
    • B29C49/428—Joining
    • B29C49/42802—Joining a closure or a sealing foil to the article or pincing the opening
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/4273—Auxiliary operations after the blow-moulding operation not otherwise provided for
    • B29C49/42808—Filling the article
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C49/00—Blow-moulding, i.e. blowing a preform or parison to a desired shape within a mould; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C49/42—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C49/72—Deflashing outside the mould

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  • the present invention relates to a process for manufacturing containers for fluid products, particularly medical products, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics or the like.
  • a strip consists of a group of containers integral the one with the other and joined together along specific easy-to-tear weakened-section connection lines.
  • Such moulds consist of one or more half-shells suitable for modelling the outer surface of the containers and in which can be fitted two or more cores suitable for modelling the inner surface of the containers.
  • the mould is opened and the strip of containers is removed from the relevant cores.
  • the containers are modelled without undercuts and, in point of fact, consist in a series of substantially tubular hollow bodies having an open extremity with a cross section with overall dimensions not below the rest of the hollow body, so as to allow the cores to be removed.
  • the containers are subsequently filled with the fluid product to be packaged.
  • the maximum overall dimension of the hollow bodies is determined by the length of the sealing lips, which is substantially greater than the rest of the hollow body.
  • the traditional strips are moulded so that between one container and another, spacing fins are formed connected together along the weakened-section connection lines.
  • the strips consist in a series of containers which are arranged substantially parallel the one with the other and joined by means of spacing fins and which, at one extremity, have a sealing lip with dimensions increased with respect to the rest of the container.
  • the main aim of the present invention is to provide a process for manufacturing containers for fluid products, particularly medical products, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics or the like, that makes it possible to make containers of particularly compact dimensions and which can be shaped in the form of strips with particularly small overall dimensions.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a container for fluid products, particularly medical products, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics or the like which allows to overcome the mentioned drawbacks of the known art in the ambit of a simple, rational, easy, effective to use and low cost solution.
  • the first phase I of the process according to the invention consists in modelling a layer of plastic material, e.g., polyethylene or the like, to form a semi-finished product 1 with tubular shape (parison).
  • This modelling phase in particular, consists in extruding the plastic material through an extruder die 2 ( figures 1 and 2 ).
  • the tubular-shaped semi-finished product 1 thus has a first distal extremity 3 and a second proximal extremity 4, where the adjectives distal and proximal are used with reference to the distance from the extruder die 2.
  • the second phase II of the process consists in blowing an expansion gas 5 inside the semi-finished product 1 through the second extremity 4.
  • the semi-finished product 1 is closed inside a forming mould 6, 7 which has a first half-shell 6 and a second half-shell 7.
  • the half-shells 6, 7 are modelled so that, during blowing, the first extremity 3 of the semi-finished product 1 is closed while the second extremity 4 remains in fluidic connection with a pneumatic nozzle P ( figure 3 ); the filling with the expansion gas 5, therefore, causes the deformation of the walls of the semi-finished product 1, crushing them against the inner walls of the half-shells 6, 7, resulting in the formation of a strip 8 of containers 9 for fluid products.
  • the forming mould 6, 7 is modelled so as to provide each container 9 with a containment body 10 with substantially axial-symmetric shape elongated along a longitudinal direction D extending between the first extremity 3 and the second extremity 4; other embodiments of the containment bodies 10 cannot however be ruled out.
  • the containment bodies 10 of the strip 8 extend in a dispensing neck 11 closed by a corresponding closing cap 12 which, before use, is removable by tearing off the dispensing neck 11 to define a fluid product outflow mouth.
  • the forming mould 6, 7 is also modelled so that in the strip 8 formed inside the half-shells 6, 7, the containers 9 remain associated in a removable way the one with the other along respective first connection lines 13 defined on the containment bodies 10 and along respective second connection lines 14 defined on the closing caps 12.
  • first connection lines 13 and the second connection lines 14 extend substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction D of the containment bodies 10 and are defined by corresponding weakened sections which are modelled by means of specific closer portions 16a of the half-shells 6, 7, which cause the walls of the semi-finished product 1 to crush against one another.
  • connection lines 13, 14 are shaped differently.
  • each containment body 10 extends in an open bottom tang 15.
  • the cross dimensions of the bottom tangs 15 are substantially smaller than the cross dimensions of the respective containment bodies 10.
  • the forming mould 6, 7 has a particular shape 16b which, when the half-shells 6,7 are closed, closes on the second extremity 4 and permits modelling the semi-finished product 1 to define a fluidic connection duct to connect the bottom tangs 15 to the pneumatic nozzle P.
  • the fluidic connection duct makes up a reject portion 17 (feedhead) which will be removed from the bottom tangs 15.
  • the third phase III of the process consists in removing such reject portion 17 from the bottom tangs 15 ( figure 4 ).
  • This removal phase is defined, e.g., by the performance of a cutting-off operation (using cutters, circular saws or similar tools), or a cutting operation (e.g., laser cutting or using other cutting tools), or shearing operation (using shears or the like).
  • a cutting-off operation using cutters, circular saws or similar tools
  • a cutting operation e.g., laser cutting or using other cutting tools
  • shearing operation using shears or the like.
  • these parts can be removed so as to leave the dispensing necks 11 substantially separated and define between them a series of pockets 21.
  • the pockets 21 can be used as insertion openings for one or more collection rods, suitable for tidily arranging the strips 8 in specific trays.
  • the fourth phase IV of the process involves introducing the fluid product into the containment bodies 10 through the bottom tangs 15, an operation that can be performed by means of an injector 18.
  • the containers 9 of the strip 8 undergo a fifth phase V of the process, which consists in sealing the bottom tangs 15 to form a sealing lip 19, substantially fan shaped.
  • This fifth phase V is obtained by crushing the open edges of the bottom tangs 15 and by sealing, e.g., of the hot type, ultrasonic type or other type, by means of two sealing bars 20.
  • the sealing bars 20 are designed to crush the bottom tangs 15 along a cross direction, in particular at right angles, to the containment bodies 10 and substantially coplanar to the lying plane of the strip 8.
  • the cross dimensions of the bottom tangs 15 are such as to ensure that, at the end of sealing, the cross dimensions of the sealing lips 19 are substantially smaller than the cross dimensions of the containment bodies 10.
  • Each of them comprises one of the containment bodies 10 which, at a first extremity, has the dispensing neck 11 and the relative closing cap 12 and which, at a second opposite extremity, extends in the bottom tang 15 the terminal part thereof is closed by the sealing lip 19, the cross dimensions of the bottom tang 15 being substantially smaller than the cross dimensions of the sealing lip 19 which, in turn, are substantially smaller than the cross dimensions of the containment body 10.
  • the containment bodies 10 are joined together in a removable way along the first connection lines 13 and the second connection lines 14 to form the strip 8.
  • the process according to the invention permits manufacturing containers with reduced cross dimensions and which can be joined together without the presence of spacer fins, which on the other hand is necessary for the strips obtained using traditional methods.
  • the strips made using the process according to the invention can be more compact than the strips of known type or, space being equal, they can be made up of a greater number of containers, with lower packaging and transport costs of the fluid products.

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  1. Verfahren zur Herstellung von Behältern für fluide Produkte medizinischer, pharmazeutischer, kosmetischer Art oder dergleichen, welches die folgenden Phasen umfasst:
    - Modellieren (I), mittels eines Extruderwerkzeugs (2), wenigstens einer Schicht aus Kunststoff, um wenigstens ein im Wesentlichen rohrförmiges Halbzeug (1) mit einem ersten Ende (3) und einem zweiten Ende (4) zu formen;
    - Einschießen des rohrförmigen Halbzeugs (1) innerhalb eines Formwerkzeugs, das zwei Halbschalen (6, 7) aufweist, wobei die zwei Halbschalen (6, 7) so modelliert sind, dass, wenn das Halbzeug (1) innerhalb des Formwerkzeugs eingeschlossen ist, das erste Ende (3) des Halbzeugs (1) verschlossen ist, während das zweite Ende in Fluidverbindung mit einer Druckluftdüse bleibt;
    - Blasen (II) eines Expansionsgases (5) in das Halbzeug (1) durch das zweite Ende (4) hindurch ins Innere des Formwerkzeugs (6, 7), um wenigstens einen Streifen (8) von Behältern (9) zu formen, sodass jeder Behälter (9) mit einem Aufnahmekörper (10) zum Aufnehmen wenigstens eines fluiden Produkts versehen wird, welcher sich an dem ersten Ende (3) in einem geschlossenen Abgabehals (11) erstreckt und welcher sich an dem zweiten Ende (4) in einem offenen Bodenzapfen (15) erstreckt,
    wobei die Querabmessungen der Bodenzapfen (15) der Behälter (9) wesentlich kleiner als die Querabmessungen der Aufnahmekörper (10) der Behälter (9) sind, und
    wobei die Behälter (9) des Streifens (8) entlang jeweiliger erster Verbindungslinien (13), die an den Aufnahmekörpern (10) definiert sind, und entlang jeweiliger zweiter Verbindungslinien (14), die an den Verschlusskappen (12) definiert sind, lösbar miteinander verbunden sind, wobei sich mindestens eine der ersten Verbindungslinie (13) und der zweiten Verbindungslinie (14) im Wesentlichen längs erstreckt;
    - Einleiten (IV) des fluiden Produkts in die Aufnahmekörper (10) durch die Bodenzapfen (15) hindurch; und
    - Abdichten (V) der Bodenzapfen (15), um eine Dichtlippe (19) für jeden Behälter (9) auszubilden, wobei die Dichtlippen (19) entlang einer Querrichtung ausgebildet werden, die im Wesentlichen koplanar mit der Ebene ist, in welcher der Streifen (8) liegt, und wobei die Querabmessungen der Dichtlippen (19) wesentlich kleiner als die Querabmessungen der Aufnahmekörper (10) sind,
    wobei die Abdichtphase ausgeführt wird, indem die offenen Enden der Bodenzapfen (15) mithilfe von zwei Abdichtstangen (20) zusammengedrückt und abgedichtet werden.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Modellieren (I) das Extrudieren des Kunststoffs durch wenigstens ein entsprechendes Extruderwerkzeug (2) umfasst.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Formwerkzeug (6, 7) derart ausgebildet ist, dass der Aufnahmekörper (10) mit einer abreißbaren Verschlusskappe (12) ausgestattet wird, die von dem Abgabehals (11) lösbar ist.
  4. Verfahren nach einem oder mehreren der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Formwerkzeug (6, 7) derart ausgebildet ist, dass die Aufnahmekörper (10) mit einer im Wesentlichen axialsymmetrischen und lang gestreckten Form entlang einer Längsrichtung (D) ausgestattet werden, welche sich zwischen dem ersten Ende (3) und dem zweiten Ende (4) erstreckt.
  5. Verfahren nach einem oder mehreren der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Formwerkzeug (6, 7) derart ausgebildet ist, dass der Aufnahmekörper (10) mit wenigstens einem Wegwerfabschnitt (17) ausgestattet ist, der von dem Bodenzapfen (15) entfernt werden kann.
  6. Verfahren nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es das Entfernen des Wegwerfabschnitts (17) von dem Bodenzapfen (15) umfasst.
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